Argentinian designer Pablo Matteoda created this beautiful Sharky tea-infuser. It’s elegant and ever-so-slightly macabre. If we used this awesome little gadget, we wouldn’t be able to make our tea without also humming the theme from Jaws.
[via Designboom]
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Get rid of that boring old butter knife and get yourself a Butter Stick! It’s more efficient and a lot more fun.
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Get rid of that boring old butter knife and get yourself a Butter Stick! It’s more efficient and a lot more fun.
[Image via BuzzFeed]
It’s Amazing Kitchen Gadget Day on Geyser of Awesome!
My what a lovely Space Oddity you are. Artist Jenn Mann makes these awesome LED Space Helmets. She made the first one as part of a Major Tom costume for a David-Bowie-themed party. And now she makes them for other aspiring astronauts:
This astronaut helmet has a visor that opens and closes all the way so you can talk to other people or say “brb, going into space.” LEDs are arranged around the inside back of the helmet so it glows from the inside. The back of the helmet is painted solid white.
The visor pivots (they hold the visor to the helmet) are custom-designed and can be printed in one of several different day-glo colors! Currently available are fluorescent yellow, fluorescent green, and fluorescent orange. They’re UV-reactive, so they actually fluoresce when the LEDs are blue. The acrylic helmet is lightweight, but comes with a bit of padding for contact points on your shoulders and the back of your head.
LEDs on the inside light up in 16 different colors. Includes a remote control to change LED color. Comes with a 12V battery pack that lasts for hours and hours (more than 8h in my experience).
The helmets are available on a made-to-order basis via Jenn’s Etsy shop, SimpleAsPi.
[via Technabob]
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Is this man relaxing or his he trapped in some sort of backyard “chair of torture” inspired by A Clockwork Orange? The answer is neither. It’s actually a serious piece of astronomical hardware. This device is a motorized stargazing chair:
“It has a shelf that places a set of high-power binoculars directly in the user’s line of sight. The elevation is easy to adjust. And a power drill lets you take the whole thing for a spin.
The base has been outfitted with cogs and a chain from an old bicycle. The gear reduction lets a power drill rotate the platform. This worked well enough but [Gary] found that making fine adjustments was rather difficult and more often than not he ended up moving the binoculars to avoid overshooting when adjusting the platform with the drill. Luckily he didn’t give up on the idea. On the eighth and final page of his build log he refines the rotating setup with the help of an ice cream maker. It’s gear box is used as a speed reducer so that a very slow drill speed results in an extremely small heading correction. Now he can view the stars in peace, freed from frustration by a well-refined hack.”
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Is this man relaxing or his he trapped in some sort of backyard “chair of torture” inspired by A Clockwork Orange? The answer is neither. It’s actually a serious piece of astronomical hardware. This device is a motorized stargazing chair:
“It has a shelf that places a set of high-power binoculars directly in the user’s line of sight. The elevation is easy to adjust. And a power drill lets you take the whole thing for a spin.
The base has been outfitted with cogs and a chain from an old bicycle. The gear reduction lets a power drill rotate the platform. This worked well enough but [Gary] found that making fine adjustments was rather difficult and more often than not he ended up moving the binoculars to avoid overshooting when adjusting the platform with the drill. Luckily he didn’t give up on the idea. On the eighth and final page of his build log he refines the rotating setup with the help of an ice cream maker. It’s gear box is used as a speed reducer so that a very slow drill speed results in an extremely small heading correction. Now he can view the stars in peace, freed from frustration by a well-refined hack.”
[via Hack a Day]
